He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up;… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Some people's weight loss is impeded by an impaired thyroid. So I think it's worth testing that at your next physical exam.… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The first half of fiscal 2006 has been exceptional for Cochlear. Importantly, Cochlear capitalized on a number of opportunities in this half… — Chris Roberts Copy Share Image
The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out… — Paul Laxalt Copy Share Image
The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics …… — John Pintard Copy Share Image
Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at… — John Walford Copy Share Image
A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I train twice a day and I make sure I eat right. I'm an avid tea drinker and I enjoy the benefits… — Miesha Tate Copy Share Image
I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
In Hong Kong, Dallas, or at home —and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Most Americans are skipping meals and when they do eat, they're starving and they're eating an excess of sugar and calories. Really… — Jackie Warner Copy Share Image
“In her youth she hadn't known that excess could be a problem too. Just as a plant can drown in too much… — Alam Nigar Copy Share Image
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is… — James Baker Copy Share Image
The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pincurling is my secret! I wear my hair wavy alot, and so I don't have to use all that excess heat every… — LeToya Luckett Copy Share Image
